For starters it was probably the first pedal I ever
had. I was a bass player / lead singer in a 3 person grunge/punk band
(back when grungy wasn't cool, mid-late 80's) and the idea of filling up all
that space when my guitarist was doing his soaring solos seemed compelling in
theory.
"It would be like triple cloning myself for the
betterment of our meager band", i thought.
I assumed it would be an octave up and down.
I'm a real meat and potatoes bass player. I hate playing past the 5th fret
and I go nights where I could easily lose my g-string too. I could venture
up into that guitar whelm I thought.
NO. TWO octaves DOWN. means I'm having
to play the D and G strings around the 7-9th frets. SCREW THAT.
I would rather anchor that bottom end. screw
the middle.
Instead I was playing up so high my already
cheap/bad bass sounded like a popcorn fart.
In summation I didn't feel it tracked well and it
sounded worse. Be that as it may I still found it superior to the
dane-electro pedal (i think, actually I think mine is now in the trash) that
people spoke well of. it was HORRIBLE. I hated
it.
I thought of selling it to somone on this
list. I would sell it for 20 in a heart beat but I couldn't with a good
concious. I truly felt my pedal had to be bad.
My main ax is a 50 dollar banjo that I defretted to
make a minstrel banjo.
MY EARS AREN"T THAT DELICATE.
I will convince my head that something sounds good
even if its crap. As long as its different, and more importantly,
CHEAP.
please listen to my best song, Clifford Ratliff in
which I feature said banjo.
ITS CRAP but the song suites it.
I'm just a crappy guy but I guess I take my low end
serious.
Sorry so lengthy. i'm typing this from a
computer and i type faster than I think.
chaz
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 11:12
PM
Subject: Re: Boss PS-6 as a tool for
looped bass.
On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:56 AM, chaz worm wrote:
I had an OC2 and I found it unacceptable for even my
ridiculously low standards. I hated it.
I went to the nearest used
equipment store to find a replacement.
I'm happy to hear this not so glowing review because it
confirms my view. I wonder what put you off about it. For me, I find it
difficult to operate. It keeps doing things I don't expect and trying to
double stomp really messes me up (went out and immediately bought an FS-6
footswitch). Reading the posts in this forum, I just figure everybody else is,
like you say, at a different level. I want to loop, but I'm just finding it
difficult. I have tried to use Mobius. It seems cool but I want to use it with
footpedals. I bought a Behringer FBC1010 because I read that it was a good
match for it. I cannot get it to do anything. I may have putty for brains but
this stuff is not easy to get started with. If I had money, I'd pay for
looping lessons.
cheers,
Ed
Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
